Duke of Wellington Quotes

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• I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

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  Military, War, Humorous

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• Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

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  Motivational, Education, Wise

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• Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

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  Horse, Doe, Born

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• Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.

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  Fighting, Army, Victory

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• We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

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  War, France, Total War

  "Re-enacting Waterloo". www.economist.com. June 16, 2005.

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• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

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  Peace, War, Battle

  Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.

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• All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

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  War, Sides, Life Is

  'The Croker Papers' (1885) vol. 3, p. 276

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• Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

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  Army, Scum Of The Earth, Waterloo

  Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 4 Nov. 1831)

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• Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

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  Education, Teacher, Retirement

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• When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

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  Mistake, Army, Men

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• If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

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  Memorial Day, War, One Day

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• Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

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  Military, War, History

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• Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

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  Inspirational, Unnecessary Things, Mysterious

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• Yes, about ten minutes.

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  Funny, Humor, Minutes

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• The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

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  War, British Soldiers, Facts

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• The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

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  Scum Of The Earth, History, Soldier

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• The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

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  Fear, War, Total War

  Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16

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• Error is ever the sequence of haste.

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  Errors, Haste, Sequence

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• An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

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  Order, Affair, Parliament

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• I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

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  Life, Saws, Hats

  On seeing the first Reformed Parliament, in Sir William Fraser 'Words on Wellington' (1889) p. 12

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• The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.

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  Order, Differences, Battle

  1815 Of the Battle of Waterloo. Letter, 8 Aug.

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• To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

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  Art, Engineering, Fool

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• God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.

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  Crazy, Mad, Enemy

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• There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

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  Cannons, Manifestos

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• Always make water when you can.

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  Water

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